When comparing Google Calendar vs Toodledo, the Slant community recommends Toodledo for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform to-do list app?”Toodledo is ranked 12th while Google Calendar is ranked 37th. The most important reason people chose Toodledo is:

Integrated sharing, note taking, habit tracking, and outlining make this a more powerful tool than a simple list of to-dos.

Day, 3-day and week views split up the days horizontally and hours vertically. Month view lays out all days in a grid and displays up to 3 events in a day.

Schedule view displays an agenda view that allows browsing all events by swiping vertically. Additionally, the way events are displayed in the agenda view is context-aware. For example, adding an event called "gym" will display the event on a background with a dumbbell.

All views except for month view can be split horizontally to display a condensed month view at the top that can be navigated by swiping horizontally.

Events can be added from any view by clicking the red plus button that's available at the bottom-right corner of the screen.

Pro

Integrates well with other Google services

Google Calendar is part of the Google ecosystem, it integrates with services like Google Now for creating events, Google Maps for directions and Gmail for pulling information about planned flights.

Pro

Can set on-screen and e-mail reminder notifications

Google calendar allows setting how many reminders are needed with each having the ability to set how long before the event the notification should remind and if it should be done via on-screen or e-mail notification.

Pro

Color-coding for events and calendars

The app will color-code different calendars in different colors as well as allow selecting a different color for each event.

Pro

Allows subscribing to public calendars through web client

Through the Google Calendar's web client, it is possible to subscribe to any public calendar. Google also maintains a list of public calendars for various sports events and holidays in different countries and for different religions.

Pro

Offers creating events from e-mail messages based on content

Google Calendar integrates with e-mail for quickly creating events from e-mails that contain the word "meeting" or dates or times, or any other information about events or plans that it can understand.

Pro

Straightforward event creation with autocomplete

All views have an option of adding a new event by tapping the plus sign at the lower right corner of the screen. This opens up a form and allows the user to add a location, start/end times, guests, description, color-code as well as choosing if it's an all day event, how often it repeats, how many and what kind of reminders are needed and setting the users availability and privacy settings.

Pro

Supports non-Google calendars (requires accessing web client)

Google Calendar can be integrated with any calendar that support iCalendar format, including Exchange and iCloud, via URL, but it has to be done using the web client.

Pro

Lots of third-party widgets

Google Calendar comes with a home screen widget, and there are also many third party widgets developed for this calendar app.

Pro

Awesome flairs / images view inside the agenda view / event page

Whenever you enter agenda / event title with the keywords (when available), the event will show up interesting flairs whenever the keyword inside the agenda / title you typed matches the flairs that are available inside the system, examples such as haircut, cycling, swimming, coffee, movie etc.

Pro

Advanced functionality available through IFTTT

IFTTT offers over 198 channels to plug into the users Google Calendar.

Pro

Functionality-rich

Integrated sharing, note taking, habit tracking, and outlining make this a more powerful tool than a simple list of to-dos.

Pro

Can create to-do items via email

It's possible to create a to-do item by sending or forwarding an email.

Pro

Decent filtering and sorting

Pro

Can tag items

Pro

Great GTD implementation

The GTD principles are very perfectly supported by Toodledo.

Pro

Space to add lengthy text

Notes area that can then be hidden

Pro

Priority organizing

Pro

Sends a daily email reminder

Toodledo reminds you via email of the tasks on your plate for the day.

Pro

Apple Watch support

Integrated support for Apple Watch lets you check on your to-dos on the run.

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Cons

Con

No weather forecast

The Android app version of Google Calendar does not show any weather forcast information, even if it is added as an extra calendar in the web application. Being that weather is tied into Google Now, the absence is surprising.

Con

Privacy concerns

Google integrate all their services to connect and mine information on an individual to better profile and target advertising.

Con

Some recurrence options not available

If you want to add a recurring event based on quirky (but normal) calendar rules, it's not supported by Google Calendar. For example, if you set up a financial calendar in Google Calendar and an event falls on a weekend or bank holiday, Google Calendar cannot schedule the occurrence properly. Worse yet, if you submit those calendar occurences via VEVENT details, Google Calendar displays different information if you use the mobile calendar vs. the desktop web calendar.

Con

No natural language input support

The Android app has no natural language input support, while it's available using the web client and in a limited capacity using Google Now.

Con

Google tasks do not show on Google Calendar

You can create tasks in your desktop Google Calendar but they will not sync nor show up in your android Google Calendar

Con

Once you create a event on a Calendar, you can't move to a different Calendar

Con

Month view shows limited information about the event

Month view does not show how many events there are in each given day or color-code them in any way, only informs of their existence.

Con

Weak default view

Even if month is set as default view, as soon as you touch a day or an event, you have to carefully select twice to get back to month view.

Con

Time zone is incorrect no matter what's done

Con

Timezone for Moscow is incorrect

Timezone for Moscow is 1 hour off. This makes the calendar unusable in Russia.

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Setting up non-Google calendars requires accessing web client

There is no ability in the Android app to access other calendars. This limits the usefulness for people that use more than one calendar, such as OSX and iOS users.

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